Restructuring & Insolvency

Restructuring is one of the most effective ways to optimise the assets and business processes of companies, as well as an extremely useful risk management tool. GRATA International's team has experience in supporting restructurings of both national groups of companies and large international holdings, and supports restructuring and bankruptcy projects in the jurisdictions of its presence.

In the conditions of economic uncertainty in the modern world, businesses face the problems of asset value reduction, increasing debt burden, inability to fulfil obligations due to economic constraints. All this leads to an increase in non-performance of obligations of legal entities, forced application of debt restructuring, and in some cases to litigation on debt collection, initiation of bankruptcy proceedings.

GRATA International's “Restructuring and Insolvency” practice is one of the leading in the market due to its business-oriented approach to the client's problems and requests, efficient legal risk management in restructuring and bankruptcy issues and long-term international experience confirmed by leading professional ratings.

GRATA International's restructuring and insolvency related services include:

• Developing a business restructuring plan (including restructuring of international groups of companies);

• Support of business restructuring (including cross-border restructuring) on a turnkey basis;

• Debt restructuring and work with bad assets, including capital restructuring, distressed lending, securitization and secured transactions, etc.;

• Advising on insolvency (bankruptcy) issues;

• Advising on the Client's (debtor and creditor) rights and remedies;

• Representing Clients in negotiations with counterparties, in court hearings, at creditors' committees (meetings), before state authorities and organisations;

• Dealing with fraudulent debtors;

• Providing legal assistance to administrators (rehabilitation/bankruptcy/anti-crisis/arbitration administrators);

• Support of reorganisation, refinancing, rehabilitation and sanation of debtors;

• Support of cases on bringing to subsidiary liability and recovery of losses;

• Support of cross-border bankruptcy;

• Drafting and filing applications to initiate bankruptcy proceedings;

• Advising and supporting cases on bringing to tort liability;

• Control over the activities of administrators (rehabilitation/bankruptcy/anti-crisis/arbitration administrators), including appealing against the actions of such administrators;

• Appeal of transactions executed as part of bankruptcy proceedings.